minervas / huecodechallenge

This is a code challenge to log Philips Hue bulb state changes

Installation

Dependencies

• git

• either docker or node.js ~ 8.4.3

• clone and cd into the repo

git clone https://github.com/minervas/hueCodeChallenge.git;
cd hueCodeChallenge;

• now you can build and run with either docker or node.js

Configuration

This app can be configured two ways

• by using environment variables
• by editing the ./config/default.json file directly

Here is a description of the config variables that are available:

• BRIDGE_IP: the IP of the running bridge (default "127.0.0.1")
• BRIDGE_PORT: the port of the running bridge (default 8080)
• USER_NAME: the user name to issue api requests against (default "newdeveloper")
• REQUEST_TIMEOUT: how many milliseconds to wait before timing out a request to the bridge (default 3000)
• LIGHT_SEARCH_INTERVAL: not currently used
• LIGHT_SEARCH_DURATION: not currently used
• STATE_CHANGE_MONITOR_INTERVAL: how many milliseconds to wait until polling the bridge for light state changes (default 1000)

(using environment variables is a little easier when you are running it with docker)

NOTE: The script will fail immediately if it is not configured with the correct BRIDGE_IP and BRIDGE_PORT (or if the bridge on that IP:PORT is not currently running at startup). I have not yet implemented the bridge discovery as I am not sure if it is within the scope of the challenge.

NOTE: The USER_NAME must be valid see ./index.js comments for more details

Installation with docker

• build the container:

docker build -t hue-code-challenge:1.0.0 .;
docker run -it --rm -e "BRIDGE_IP=<your bridge ip here>" -e "BRIDGE_PORT=<your bridge port here>"" hue-code-challenge:1.0.0;

Installation with Node.js

npm install;
BRIDGE_IP=<your bridge ip here> BRIDGE_PORT=<your bridge port here> npm start;